Steve Jobs and his iPhone

Earlier yesterday, I watched Bill Gates’ keynote address given at the International CES 2007. It was indeed a great show. If you follow it until the end, you’d probably agree with me. Then, I turned to see Steve Jobs’ keynote given at the Macworld Conference 2007. I was completely thrilled by Steve and his iPhone. It was a really long presentation: 2 hours. If you often attend presentations or at least scientific presentations, you know that 30 minutes are usually enough for you to fall asleep. But, his introduction of the iPhone is different. It will keep you interested all the way to the end.

Recently, I have developed an admiration for Steve Jobs due to his way of business, his experience, and his extraordinary public speaking skills (although like Bill, he dropped out of college after 1 semester). Another classic example is his commencement speech in 2005, which inspired a a crowd of Stanford graduates and probably would change the way many of them see life.

His 1997 Macworld Conference keynote is also a masterpiece. Seriously, this 10-years-old talk has changed my attitude toward Apple’s human capital and future Apple products.

It’s not a bad idea to compile a list of top 10-20 Steve’s presentations. I’d be interested in seeing such a list.